Interior, Sunlight on the Floor
1906 · Oil on canvas · Tate, London
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916)
- Year
- 1906
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 51.8 × 44 cm
- Collection
- Tate, London
- Movement
- Symbolism
An empty corner of a room: a tall sash window with its panes filled with pale light, a panelled door, a stretch of bare floorboards and the slanting patch of sun that gives the painting its title. There are no people and almost no colour beyond greys, whites and a soft brown. Hammershøi painted it in 1906 in the flat at Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen where he and his wife Ida lived for ten years and which he painted again and again, often with the furniture removed. The brushwork is dry and matte, and the geometry of window bars and door panels is as carefully balanced as a still life. The painting is in the Tate collection in London, one of the few Hammershøis in a British museum, and his quiet interiors have found a wide new audience since the 1990s.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Greys, whites and an empty sunlit corner: the quietest picture in the catalogue, made for a bedroom, hallway or minimal living room at 16×24 or 24×36. Oak or thin black on a white wall; hang it alone where the light changes through the day.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Symbolism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1906)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, hallway or entryway, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
The full-bleed edition
The same plate printed edge-to-edge, filling the whole sheet — bold and immersive.
